Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Risks of Formula Feeding: a Brief Annotated Bibliography

It is a light publication for the money, we admit, but is packed with heavy-weight information describing key studies on infant feeding arranged in 16 themes. Here is a sample:

---Publication extract:10 Increased risk of diabetes

[4 studies described including...]

Early introduction of infant formula, solids and cow's milk are factors shown to increase the incidence of Type I diabetes later in life. Swedish (517) and Lithuanian (286) children aged 0 to 15 years who were diagnosed with Type I diabetes were compared to non-diabetic controls. The results showed that exclusive breastfeeding for five months and total breastfeeding for longer than seven or nine moths are protective against diabetes.